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ing types of groups: (1) Noncommissioned officers, (2) officers, (3) candidate officers in officers' 

 training camps. The data on the first of these groups were incomplete; for the latter two 

 groups, officers and officers' training camps, a representative survey was made. 



DATA ON NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICEKS. 



Information regarding noncommissioned officers was difficult to obtain, since the majority 

 of these at the time of the examination were only acting corporals or sergeants and not permanent 

 appointments. At Camp Taylor, however, where examining was done late, records were obtained 

 for 243 corporals and 196 sergeants, picked at random from the various groups examined. Table 

 152 and figure 11 show the data on this group in comparison with the whole body of Taylor 

 enlisted men on the one hand and the officer group on the other. 



TOTAL 

 ENLISTED 



MEN 

 (16765) 



CORPORALS 

 (2*3) 



SERGEANTS 

 (.96) 



OFFICERS 



so 



IOO 150 200 



MEDIAN SCORE 



2SO 



SOO 



Fig. 11. Medians for enlisted men, corporals and sergeants, and officers, Camp Taylor. Number of cases shown by numbers in parentheses; 

 numerical value of medians by numbers beside bars. 



Table 152. — Percentage distribution of scores of enlisted men, corporals and sergeants, and officers — Examination a — Camp 



Taylor. 



1 Since cases eliminated from examination a as illiterate are included in this total group the lower quartile could not be obtained. The figure 

 given for the quartile deviation in case of the enlisted men represents the range from the upper quartile to the median — an approximation to Q. 



The standing of the two noncommissioned groups as mentally superior to the total group 

 from which they are drawn, but as inferior to the officer group, is clearly indicated by these 

 data, as is also the superiority of the group of sergeants to that of corporals. In other words, 

 the mental status of the group as a whole, as determined by these examinations, parallels their 

 military status as rler.pr min p.fi by practical military cosniderations. For this group the appoint- 

 ments had not been influenced in any way by the psychological examinations, since the nec- 

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